Faith · 2024-07-09
Hel and the Ordinary Dead
Most people do not die at the high point of a story. They die in beds, chairs, vehicles, hospitals, kitchens, nursing homes, fields, and ordinary rooms that were not arranged for symbolism. [more]
Týsdagr Hall
Sworn beneath the old gods (and new).
Carried like iron under the cloak.
#ancestorveneration
Faith · 2023-01-24
The Dead Have Not Left the Room
The dead are easy to abuse because they cannot interrupt. That may be the first rule of ancestor work worth remembering. The living can quote them, polish them, recruit them, soften them, sharpen them, and arrange them around whatever argument needs an old face behind it. [more]
Faith · 2022-09-27
The Ancestors We Inherit and the Kin We Choose
Blood is a record. It is not the whole archive. That sentence will irritate two different kinds of people for opposite reasons. One kind wants ancestry to be nothing but biology, a chain of bodies and names moving backward until the records fail. [more]
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